by Shelia Shook | Mar 21, 2023 | Learn to Cope
When Health and Life Collide Have you yet been dealt a handful of health issues to contend with? It’s one thing to be a caregiver for others and help meet their needs, but it is quite a different feeling to need help yourself. My experience these past months has been...
by Shelia Shook | Dec 21, 2021 | Learn to Cope
Holidays are a hard time for people who have lost a loved one. How have you handled your loss so far this year? December 14th marked the 25th anniversary of my daughter Cindy’s death. (See previous post, A Single Flower.) She unexpectedly died in a car wreck at...
by Shelia Shook | Oct 23, 2021 | Learn to Cope
Is what we see and hear real? Truth-vs-Ruse As director of nursing in long term care facilities, I’ve witnessed many comical and sad situations. For the sake of anonymity, we will call this patient Nurse Mary. Let me tell you a story. Mary, a retired nurse with...
by Shelia Shook | Aug 3, 2021 | Learn to Cope
Do you believe in Aliens? Have you heard the old contemporary Christian song “Not of This World”, by Petra? The lyrics immediately strike a chord with me. We are pilgrims in a strange world, we are so far from our homeland. . . We are strangers, we are aliens, we are...
by Shelia Shook | Feb 27, 2021 | Learn to Cope
Were you one of the four million Texans without power during our winter storm? For greater than 72 hours indoor temperatures in homes without heat dropped below 48 degrees. Highways and bridges iced over and were unpassable. People had to cope with nonexistent toilet...
by Shelia Shook | Jan 3, 2021 | Learn to Cope
As we say goodbye to 2020 with all the political hype, riots, racial injustice, and pandemic chaos, the thing to remember is God’s grace, His mercy, and His presence are with us through it all. Our hope is in Him. These have been bad times. We live in an unjust,...
